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Shipping Clash: Business, History and Northeast Asia

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Bill Dorman

Published April 22, 2014 at 10:54 AM HST

news.nationalpost.com

A cargo ship belonging to a Japanese company has wound up in the middle of a dispute between Japan and China. A court in Shanghai has ruled the Chinese government can seize the ship because of a debt that pre-dates the second world war. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

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